There seems no intrinsic reason why everyone shouldn't be (self-actualising). Apparently every baby has possibilities for self-actualisation, but most get it knocked out of them ...I think of the self-actualising man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing taken away.

All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.

We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves

No psychological health is possible unless this essential care of the person is fundamentally accepted, loved and respected by others and by himself.

Life could be vastly improved if we could count our blessings as self-actualizing people can and do, and if we could retain their constant sense of good fortune and gratitude for it.

The theory of science which permits and encourages the exclusion of so much that is true and real and existent cannot be considered a comprehensive science.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.